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摘要

Read Beatriz Colomina's essay, "The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism," published in a collection she edited titled Sexuality and Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 199a), and you might get the impression that early modernist architects like Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier were playing a highly abstract game of peek-a-boo. An architectural historian, Colomina did her best to tease out traces of carnality in the peculiar ways those architects arranged their interior perspectives. Le Corbusier didn't give her a lot to work with, but Loos obliged Colomina with his famously unbuilt-and probably never actually commissioned-home for the chanteuse Josephine Baker. His design had a swimming pool at its center, with all the other rooms arranged around it, making views of the pool and its occupant, presumably Baker, "the focus of the visitors' gaze."